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#*AGE TWO THE JOHNSTONIAN - SUN, SELMA, N. C. — THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1942. U. S. Buries Enemy Seamen I Burial with full military honors at the National cemetery in Hampton, Va., was accorded to 29 crewmen of a Nazi submarine which was sunk hy an American destroyer following a running fight. The bodies of the 29 Oermans were recovered and brought to the naval operating base ' at Norfolk. A Week of the War ★ ★ ★ ★ War Production Almost Triples In Six Months —Large Plants to Suspend Civilian Production Peddlers of Bogus Ration Books Discovered —Tire and Tube Quotas Increased — U. S. Navy Sinks Submarine In Eastern Waters. The U. S. Overall output of planes, tanks, ships, guns and ammunition during June was nearly three times that of last November, the month be fore Pearl Harbor, War Production Chairman Nelson reported. Mr. Nel son stated, however, “too much boast ing about production progress is al- itogether premature—the biggest part of the job is still ahead.” Any letup now, he said, “would mean years more of war and hundreds of thousands more lives.” Chairman Nelson, as an index of the Nation’s productive effort, estimated that approximately 36 per cent of the U. S.’s record breaking income during the first six months of .this year went into military channels. This compares, he said, to the 50 to 75 per cent of total income being spent by Great Britain and Germany. The War Production Board an nounced it will concentrate produc tion of civilian goods in certain plants and regions as much as pos sible. 'Phe Board said, as a general rule, small plants will be kept in civil ian production and large plants will be required to suspend civilian pro- . duction. Civilian production will be restricted or suspended in regions where labor is urgently needed in war plants or where power shortages are likely to occur. Rationing Price Administrator Henderson re ported gasoline coupon counterfeiters had been peddling bogus ration books in the East and stated these “sabo teurs attacking our war program” will be prosecuted promptly vigorously. All persons found to be in posses sion of the counterfeit books, he said, are liable to have their regularly issued ration books either revoked or withheld. Because of delays in ob taining gasoline rationing coupon books, the OPA said service stations may sell gasoline on a “Coupon Ci-edit” basis until midnight July 31. The OPA increased tire and tube quotas for August and said 98,000 bicycles will be made available for rationing in August as compared with 45,000 in, July. The office said only trucks engaged in services es sential to the war effort or public health and safety will be entitled to recapped or new tires after July 28 under a drastic revision of the tire rationing regulations. The OPA pub lished names and addresses of field representatives who may be called upon by tire dealers, recappers, truck operators and o.ther users of tires for ,aidi in solving problems arising under the rationing regulations. Maximum Prices and Rents Price Administrator Henderson re ported “Government controls of prices and rents, where they are in effect, are doing a good job of holding down prices, but uncontrolled food prices are showing a definite inflationary ■tendency.” He said “the total cost of food to City families advanced by 1.3 per cent between May 15 and June 15, continuing the steady upward price trend of the previous 14 months and offsetting the benefits of price control on all foodstuifs covered by the general regulation.” Mr. Henderson said housewives and other members of the buying public will acquire the legal right, beginning July 31, to bring civil suits for damages against any storekeeper who charges more than OPA regulations permit. The purchaser is entitled to recover $50 in damages plus attorn ey’s fees or .triple the amount of the overcharge plus the attorney’s fees whichever is larger. Similar suits may be filed in de fense rental areas against landlords who collect rents above those per mitted by OPA orders. The office re ported it has designated 370 areas as defense rental areas and by August 1 rent regulations will become effec tive in 94 of these areas. Agriculture secretary Wickard an nounced a price adjustment and sub sidy program designed to ease the temporary shortage of meats in the Eastern States and some pants of the Mid-West. The OPA asked livestock and meat packing industries to main tain a supply of meats in all normal trade channels rather than concen trate shipments to large cities where and I ceiling prices are relatively high. The War Front The Navy reported U. S .subma rines in far Eastern waters have sunk another Japanese Destroyer, a medium-sized tanker, three cargo ships, and possibly a fourth cargo ship. The Navy said all of its large [ submarines are being fitted with' cameras designed to fit over the eye piece of the periscope .to record the results of submarine attacks on the enemy. Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton, Commander of the Air Forces in the Middle East, said American Air Forces caused heavy damage to the enemy docks and port installations at Tobruk, Benghazi, Suda Bay and Crete. President Roosevelt said Admiral William D. Leahy, former U. S. Am bassador to Vichy France, has been called back to active duty to serve as chief of staff to him as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. Gen. MacArthur reported from Australia that the new 2,500-man Japanese in vasion force landed in .the Buna-Am- basi-Gona area in New Guinea on July 22 has been subjected to such damaging raids that few, if any, Jap anese ships are left in the vicinity of the invasion. The Navy announced 17 more United Nations merchant vessels have been lost to enemy submarines. Army The nine army corps areas were re organized and renamed “Service Com mands.” The reorganization will fur ther decentralize the operation of Services of Supply activity and elimi nate duplicating facilities. War Secre tary Stimson said 28,000 Jaundice cases developed among Army person nel in the U. S. and abroad between January 1 and July 4, apparently due to the use of Yellow Fever vaccine. Sixty-two deaths resulted. “There has been a change in the form of Yellow Fever vaccine now used which the Surgeon General thinks will eliminate ■the whole trouble,” Mr. Stimson said. Director Hobby of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps said 20 com panies of 150 women each will be trained by the end of this year and 25,000 women will be trained by April 1943. Taxation and Profits The House passed and sent to the Senate the War Revenue Bill, esti mated to yield about $6,300 million, providing a 45 per cent normal and surtax income rate on corporations and a 90 per cent excess profits tax. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, how ever, said a tax program of less than $8,700 million of additional revenue would be inadequate. He recommend ed removal of these “special privi leges”: tax exemption for State and municipal securities, exemption from taxation of 27 1-2 per cent of income from oil wells and mines, and separ ate income tax returns by married couples. The House Naval affairs Commit tee, after investigating 40,000 con tracts, said “95 per cent of the War Contractors are doing an hones.t and effective job and receiving only fair and reasonable profits,” the average being 8 per cent. Scrap Salvage Campaigns President Roosevelt reported the recent scrap rubber collection drive added 454,000 tons to the Govern ment’s stockpile—exclusive of rubber in small piles still at service stations and junk dealers. WPB Chairman Nelson asked State and Local Govern ments to lend their trucks and work ers to local salvage committees to help transport scrap material collec tions before winter sets in. To keep steel furnaces going at full capacity, more than 750,000 freight cars will be required to carry scrap iron and steel, most of which must be moved by trucks to rail points. The WPB extended the tin can sal vage program to 104 cities in addi tion to 36 Metropolitan areas pre viously announced, because de-tinning plant capacity requirements have been increased from 250,000 to 400,- 000 tons. The Board said the Govern ment will requisition from junk deal ers all useless automobiles—those that cannot be repaired on a practical basis—.to maintain the present peak movement of automobile scrap to mills. On the basis of a questionaire to 350 firms, the Board estimated 100 million pounds of essential chemicals could be realized in the next 18 months if manufacturers of war equipment began now to recover wasted spray paints. ★ ★ What you 1/i/UU WAR BDIDS Ships of the Destroyer type com prise the bulk of our fighting ships in the American Navy. Their aver age displacement is about 1800 tons, and they are fast, powerful, and hard hitting. They have been par ticularly effective in convoy duty and gave a good account of themselves in the Coral Sea engagement. They cost approximately $3,600,000 each. Every Navy shipyard is turning out Destroyers in record time. They are essential for our two-ocean Navy. Purchase of more and more War Bonds will assure all-out pro duction of these vital units for the Navy. Buy every pay day. If ev erybody invests at least ten percent of his income in War Bonds we can do the job. V. S. Treasury Department Mrs. C. E. Howell Dies Near Kenly Goldsboro. — Funeral services for Mrs. C. E. Howell, 56, were conduct ed Sunday afternoon at her home on Route 1, Kenly, by the Rev. Johnnie Alford of Kenly. Interment was in the family cemetery near .the home. She died Saturday evening at her home following a stroke. Pour children survive: Mrs. Annie Snipes, Mrs. George Batten, and .James Howell, of of Route 2, Selma, and Brantley Howell of Route 1, Kenly. Waste Fats Needed To Make Explosives Fats make glycerine and glycerine makes explosives to down Axis planes, stop Axis tanks and sink Axis ships. Dean I. 0. Schaub, direc tor of the State College Extension Service, says housewives can help supply the vital war material. Dean Schaub has accepted .the post as Chairman of the Consumer Division of the State Salvage Com mittee. Mrs. Estelle T. Smith, as sistant to the State home demonstra tion agent, is chairman of the Wo men’s Division of the Salvage Com mittee. These iwo State College leaders have united in an appeal .to all North Carolina housewives to save waste fats. “Don’t throw away a single drop of used cooking fats,” they urged. “This includes bacon grease, meat drippings, frying fats—every kind you use. After you’ve got all the cooking good from them, pour them .through a kitchen strainer into a clean, wide-mouthed can. Store in a cool dark place.” Dean Schaub explained that meat dealers are patriotically serving as collectors of the waste fats. They have asked that waste fats be brought to them in one-pound lots, preferably early in the week. They will weigh the fats, pay the housewife for them, and start them on .their way to the war industries. Mrs. Smith lists four things “Not to do.” (1) Don’t take less than one pound at a time to your meat dealer; (2) Don’t take your fats in glass con tainers or paper bags; (3) Don’t al low fats to stand so long that they become rancid because, if they do .the glycerine content is reduced; and (4) Don’t take your fats to the meat dealer on week ends when he is usually the busiest. Mrs. Kirkman Feted At Reunion of Hoods Smithfield Woman, Nearing 87, Remembers Battle of Civil War Funeral Held For Child Near Benson Benson.—Funeral rites for Frankie Lou Blackman, four-month-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Robey Blackman of near Benson, were held Tuesday afternon at Lee’s Chapel Church, with the Rev. F. B. Eastman officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery. The child died in Highsmith Hos pital at Fayetteville early Monday night after a short illness. Smithfield, July 28.—Honoring Mrs. Dora Hood Kirkman of Smithfield, who will pass her 87th birthday on July 30, the annual Hood family re union was held Sunday at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Jones on Bridge Street. Around 100 relatives and friends enjoyed a bountiful dinner on the lawn. Mrs. Kirkman, the only surviving child of the late Mr. and Mrs. John C. Hood, was born in Bentonville Township near the site of the famous battleground and has vivid recollec tions of the horrors of the battle when limbs of wounded soldiers were am putated under a shed near her home without the benefit of anesthetic. The Hood reunion is held each sum mer on a Sunday nearest her birthday and attracts many relatives from a distance. A very interesting feature of the occasion was a moving picture of preceding reunions, when loved ones, now dead, could be seen moving about the grounds. The Rev. B. H. Houston, pastor of Mrs. Kirkman, returned thanks be fore the guests began eating from a table containing two birthday cakes, one brought by Mrs. Kirkman's grandaughter, Mrs. L. K. Jordan of Mount Olive, and another by Mrs. Marvin Jordan of Smithfield, another grandaughter. Out-of-town guests included Mrs. D. H .Hood, Mrs. James Best and Misses Flora and Madrid Best of Dunn, Mr. and Mrs. S. Z. Young and family, Mr. and Mrs. Talbut Capps and son, Mr. and Mrs. J. Thel Hooks and son of Raleigh, Miss Mamie Jones of Clayton, Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Smith of Benson, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Jor dan and Tommie, and Dr. ' Rachael Jordan of Oxford, Mablon Elliott of Danville Va. Misses Kathleen Young and Doro thy Britt of Goldsboro, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Britt and Mayo Britt of Gar ner, Mrs. Betsy Hood Proctor and son of Detroit, Mich., Mr. and Mrs. John C. Hood and Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Jones and daughter of Kinston, Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Jordan and son of Mt. Olive and Miss Lane of Wilson. Mrs. Kirkman had many lovely gifts on display and numerous friends in Smithfield called during the after noon .to wish the honoree many happy returns of the day. The rubber in a washing machine would make gas masks for three U. S. soldiers. 4-H Wildlife Camp Scheduled Aug. 4-8 Farm boys and girls who have con ducted outstanding 4-H Club wildlife conservation projects during the past year have been invited to attend the annual Wildlife Conservation Con ference at the Millstone 4-H Camp in Richmond County the week of August 4-8. L. R. Harrill, and Miss Frances MacGregor, State 4-H Club leaders of .the N. C. State College Extension Service, are in charge of arrange ments for the camp. The Federal Cartridge Corporation has provided funds with which the 60 delegates from 15 North Carolina counties will receive free scholarships to the conference. The Department of Conservation and Development and the U. S. Soil Conservation Service will cooperate with the Extension Service in providing instruction. Lewis Cannon, permanent camp director, and Vernon Jeter, water front director, at Camp Millstone will be on hand to help with the program. Recreation will play an important part in the week’s activities. Mrs. Charlotte Hilton Green, widely known Raleigh author and naturalist, will conduct nature hikes and teach courses in bird and plant life. W. J. Barker, assistant Extension forester of State College, will give forestry instruction. E. V. Floyd, educational director of the Division of Game and Inland Fish eries of the Department of Conserva tion and Development, will conduct a class in “Game Management on North Carolina Farms.” R. B. Armfield, field biologis.t of the Department of Conservation and Development, will conduct a tour to the nearby game farm and fish hatchery. Counties which will be represented at the camp are: Caldwell, Alamance, Guilford, Wilson, Sampson, Pender, Catawba, Jones, Carteret, Cleveland, Nash," Buncombe, Wake, Robeson and Surry. One newly-developed machine at a bomber plant performs 10 boring operations simultaneously, cuts a day’s work to two hours, saves $1,000 per plane. MAGIC RECIPES WITH VICTORY VEGETABLES Suggestions for new ways to use the fresh products of Victory gardens which Americans are growing to help the war effort. A timely feature in the August 2nd 'issue of The American Weekly the big magazine distributed with the BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN On Sale At All Newsstands A GOOD THING TO REMEMBER.... We carry in stock ready for immediate deliver a large supply lof quality lumber and building materials. GUY C. LEE MEG. CO. Phone 229-W “The Builders’ Dept. Store” Smithfield, N. C. Closing Out ALL SUMMER DRESSES We have some good values. It would pay you to buy four or five dresses now. We have big line of IVew Fall Shoes It will pay you to buy your shoes early and get best selections and better quality. USE YOUR CREDIT Walt Godwin SELMA, N. C. FARMER’S DAY Wed., Aug.l2 Make Your Plans Now To Attend Farmer’s Day This Year Bigger and Better Than Ever! Added Featiire Fort Bragg Band and Infantry and Equipment Will Be Here! FREeT^275 IN WAR BONDS GIVEN AWAY! TRADE IN SMITHFIELD and ask for your Farmer^s Day Tickets All farmers are asked to bring any kind of metal, iron, brass, zinc, copper, rubber, etc., to Smithfield on Farmer’s Day. Smithfield Chamber of Commerce
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